26 March 2010

Greetings,

The National Archives of Outre-Mer are finally up online. Thanks to Yann for keeping in touch and we’ve been waiting for this moment for a couple of years. The Registry Records for French Guiana and our July plus genealogy and ancestry are now available. Hurrah!!! Would anyone like some French stamps?

The records are viewable via the Internet and the image copies are tremendous. The Home Page to IREL ANOM, the online Archives of the French Colonies can be accessed at this link. And it is in French.

The first document and entry I was able to find was the 1878 Death Registration for gg-grandfather Jean Jacques Alfred July.

From my understanding of the French documentary requirements birth, marriage, and death registrations are supposed to be recorded at three locations: Nationally at Paris; at the Department level, in this case Outre-Mer; and locally at the place, as at Cayenne in French Guiana. Whether this was a consistent practice is beyond my knowledge, but I am always on the look-out for at least three possible registrations and/or documents relating to a vital event.

I was able to provide, with Annie’s help the National Registration entry of gg-grandfather Jean Jacques Alfred July’s death. This one, including the Index is from the Cayenne, Guyanne Registry. It was found on the online Outre-Mer Archives.

This registry contains One hundred forty nine pages including this one,
was numbered and initialed by us, the presiding first Tribunal of Cayenne
(French Guiana), to be served at registration of death certificates from the city of Cayenne
during the year one thousand eight hundred and Seventy eight.

Cayenne nineteen December one thousand eight hundred and Seventy Seven.

E. Seé

1878 Registry Index

Transcrition –

228
July
Jean Jacques Alfred
31 “ (Mai)

And from the Cayenne Registry, gg-grandfather Jean Jacques Alfred July’s Death Registration.

Today, the thirty-first of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, at nine
am, before us, Alexandre Couÿ, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
Mayor and Officer of the Civil State of the city of Cayenne, have appeared the Gentlemen
Henri Marchand, forty two years old, the head of the First Class
Printing of Government of this colony and André Hippolyte Harnois,
thirty nine years old, bookseller, both domiciled in this city, by whom
We are told that Jean Jacques Alfred July, merchant,
born the first of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, in Bordeaux (Gironde), son of
Jean François July and Catherine Rosalie Dubuc
His wife, and married Catherine Cora Merle, lives in Cayenne, has
died this morning, within the hour in his house, Sixth Coast Street No. 22,
_____ We are assured and have signed with us, this act
in triplicate after the reading was done.

Cayenne, day, month and year as above.

H Harnois - Marchand
A. Couÿ

It is also phenomenal that this Registration Entry provides the name of gg-grandmother Catherine Cora Merle and ggg-grandparents Jean François July and Catherine Rosalie Dubuc. And there is much more to find.

This registry contains One hundred forty nine pages including this one,
was numbered and initialed by us, the presiding first Tribunal of Cayenne
(French Guiana), to be served at registration of death certificates from the city of Cayenne
during the year one thousand eight hundred and Seventy eight.

Cayenne nineteen December one thousand eight hundred and Seventy Seven.

Today, the thirty-first of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, at nine
am, before us, Alexandre Couÿ, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
Mayor and Officer of the Civil State of the city of Cayenne, have appeared the Gentlemen
Henri Marchand, forty two years old, the head of the First Class
Printing of Government of this colony and André Hippolyte Harnois,
thirty nine years old, bookseller, both domiciled in this city, by whom
We are told that Jean Jacques Alfred July, merchant,
born the first of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, in Bordeaux (Gironde), son of
Jean François July and Catherine Rosalie Dubuc
His wife, and married Catherine Cora Merle, lives in Cayenne, has
died this morning, within the hour in his house, Sixth Coast Street No. 22,
_____ We are assured and have signed with us, this act
in triplicate after the reading was done.

I am currently working on three Family Trees: Robertson, Groh and McAteer.

I am searching for the origins of my ggg-grandfather James Smith who passed away in Grenada in 1842. This is my Indenture Research Project. Presently the Records that I am working with are dated between 1799 and 1810.

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